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How it works: Please click on BOOK TICKETS. This will take you to the Concerts calendar. Click to choose a concert. This will take you to the details of the tour. Scroll to the bottom of the page to choose your ticket type. Continue to payment by credit card. Your ticket confirmation will be sent by email. For Bridport please go the Booking information. For more information, please go to How to Book
Updated 12 February 2025
Header photo: Ensemble Hesperi
We start a new season of beautiful and interesting music and look forward to welcoming you to our concerts.
We run the calendar year so the 2025 season will start on 14 February with the Ensemble Hesperi. The concert in Ilminster is Sold out. There are tickets available in Crewkerne on Saturday evening.
Booking for tours will start 2 months before the tour begins.
Clicking on BOOK TICKETS above will take you to all the concerts in 2025. You can also can see a list of who is coming this season by clicking on – 2025
The concert programme for the whole season will be on sale at each venue. It contains notes written for these concerts by Anthony Friend, Mary-Jannet Leith and Victoria Couper. It also includes biographies of the performers. It costs £8 and can be paid for by card or cash.
You can download the Brochure 2025 here.
News – please check for information about our artists. The latest item is about Fenella Humphreys and Adrian Sutton’s new concerto written for her.
To return to this Home page click on the Concerts in the West logo at the top of any page.
Bridport Arts Centre – please note that bookings for Bridport go through their booking arrangements. All the concert tours go to Bridport.
Ticket prices: £20 for evening concerts – £16 for the morning concerts in Bridport.
Tickets for Alasdair Beatson‘s tour are £25 for Ilminster and Crewkerne and £18 for Bridport. We will be celebrating our 20th season while Alasdair is with us.
2019, 2020, 2020 Online, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 Seasons – you can see the list of performers for each year under our News section.
Archived concerts from 2006 when the concert series began – if you go to Concerts by date, scroll down to Previous concerts, this will take you back to earlier seasons.
Under Concerts by venue you will find venues where we have held concerts in the past as well as those we go to currently. In 2025 we will be visiting Bridport (all tours), Ilminster (all tours), and Crewkerne (all tours).
Concerts in the West was launched in 2006. We aim to bring talented young professional musicians to small, intimate venues in the West Country, in areas that may not have easy access to music of this quality. Short intensive tours, lasting a few days, are arranged mainly in Dorset and Somerset.
We feel privileged to hear music performed to such a high standard. The repertoire is enormously varied and gives local audiences a wonderful opportunity to hear both familiar and unusual works for voice and instrument in many combinations.


Ensemble Hesperi
14 — 15 February 2025
Magdalena Loth-Hill, baroque violin
Mary-Jannet Leith, recorders
Florence Petit, baroque cello
Thomas Allery, harpsichord



News
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2018 Season
Ferio Saxophone Quartet – February 2018 – Lower Pulworthy, Hatherleigh 15 – 17 FebruaryFerio Saxophone QuartetHuw Wiggin, soprano – Ellie McMurray, altoJose Banuls, tenor – Shevaughan Beere, baritone 15 – … Read more
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Riccardo Pes and a tree
RICCARDO PES, who played for us in September, has been lamenting the loss of a special tree at Sycamore Gap. What an extraordinary journey he made from northern Italy. LAMENT FOR … Read more
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ALASDAIR BEATSON
ALASDAIR BEATSON is one of the Artistic Directors of the ERNEN FESTIVAL in Switzerland. This wonderful festival is celebrating its 50th anniversary. LAURENCE CUMMINGS, who is also one of our … Read more
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MELA GUITAR QUARTET
Congratulations to the Mela guitar quartet for winning first prize at this year’s Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) Ensemble Competition.
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BENJAMIN BAKER & DANIEL LEBHARDT
BENJAMIN BAKER, VIOLIN ANDDANIEL LEBHARDT, PIANO1919: Coda (Delphian Records)https://www.benjamin-baker.com/albums/1919-coda Some reviews:“The playing is marvellously poised, an exemplary concept album aptly adapted to each composer’s circumstances and individuality. Baker and Lebhardt tell four … Read more
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FENELLA HUMPHREYS
FENELLA HUMPHREYS has exciting news. Her Caprices album won the Premiere Award at the 2023 BBC Music Magazine Awards. Many congratulations.